The Disorders and Character Flaws Thread

[NumberNineDream]

From Wikipedia:
Avoidant personality disorder

Signs and symptoms

People with AvPD are preoccupied with their own shortcomings and form relationships with others only if they believe they will not be rejected. Loss and rejection are so painful that these individuals will choose to be lonely rather than risk trying to connect with others.

• Hypersensitivity to criticism or rejection
• Self-imposed social isolation
• Extreme shyness or social anxiety in social situations, though feels a strong desire for close relationships[3]
• Avoids physical contact because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus
• Avoids interpersonal relationships
• Feelings of inadequacy
• Severe low self-esteem
• Self-loathing
• Mistrust of others
• Emotional distancing related to intimacy
• Highly self-conscious
• Self-critical about their problems relating to others
• Problems in occupational functioning
• Lonely self-perception
• Feeling inferior to others
• In some more extreme cases-- Agoraphobia
• Utilizes fantasy as a form of escapism and to interrupt painful thoughts[4]
• Susceptibility to substance abuse as a way of escapism.

So after CanwllCorfe's opening post, I decided to wiki all the diseases named on here. So that was the first one I wikied, and it seems I have 100% of these symptoms.

Anyway, I always thought of this as my "personality" and I don't think I'll ever refer to it as a disorder.
Not to mention my slightly autistic, paranoid, schizophrenic side.

Still, I'm pretty sure that's my personality. It might also be the reason why I get drunk nearly 5 days a week. And the reason I read books, listen to music, watch movies and draw, write, isolate my self and rarely sleep. Which I call "my way of life".

Still to find the negative side of things (other than never having a job in my life, for fear of interacting with costumers -I guess that's the one). Other thing would be, never being a friend with a person for more than 2 years... and another one would be, never being a bff or a gf to anyone.

So anyway, I guess I'm doing well.
In a way.